Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Elis were still getting most of the scoring chances. Then, with less than a minute to go in the quarter, McCall got the ball along the left sideline, and sent a hard shot on the ground toward the Eli nets. Yale goalie John Parkhurst kneeled down to pick up the bounding ball, but at the last possible second, Tuckerman broke in front of the goal and tipped the ball in for the score...
...United Church has played a vital part in the impressive national drive that has swept through India since the British left in 1947. The tempo of change did not really pick up until 1951, when it became clear than the first Five Year Plan was succeeding. Although India's development has been mainly government run, many civil officials credit the Church with having "showed them how." Among the more interesting reforms the United Church has supported is an educational pilot project involving sociologists, technicians, and village residents. They will attempt to shape industry around village requirements and, if successful, should...
...spite of the damage you have done, I do hope that you will print this letter. Perhaps you will realize how serious your "joke" has been. And students who have been misled into thinking they could pick up copies of the parody at the CRIMSON should at least be told they have, at your instigation, been put to a considerable inconvenience. W. Hinkham-Browne, Archivist...
...Bruins made one last effort to give the game away, only to be foiled again. This time halfback Bob Carlin fumbled on his own 40 and the ball bounced tantalizingly at the feet of three Crimson players. But in his rattled attempt to pick it up and run--an illegal action anyway--one of them booted the ball out of bounds and back into Brown's possession...
Here he is blessed with probably the best receivers in the Ivy League. Left end Bill Traub in particular seemed able to pick the ball from any spot Finney threw it to, and he scored the Brown's third touchdown with three Crimson defenders fighting him for the ball...